lucidfox comments on The Self-Reinforcing Binary - Less Wrong

-4 Post author: lucidfox 22 November 2010 09:01AM

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Comment author: lucidfox 22 November 2010 02:00:36PM 2 points [-]

4- Given that almost no ideas are explicitly labelled masculine or feminine in modern (English-speaking) culture, you are presumably either ignoring English-speaking culture or contending it is subconscious.

While I hope it will be true at some point in the future, saying this now would be wishful thinking when people get abused and assaulted daily for not conforming to so-called gender norms.

Comment author: Carinthium 22 November 2010 11:41:10PM 0 points [-]

1- Any actual examples in the Western world?

2- It is different to call everything masculine or feminine and to have gender norms- a culture can have one without the other.

Comment author: Perplexed 22 November 2010 06:03:23PM 0 points [-]

And people are often verbally abused for conforming to them. (I know that super-normal stimulus is a standard idea. Would it make sense to say that a male chauvinist pig is engaged in super-normal conformity?)